Kevin Griffee '19, one of Professor Coch's lab assistants, describes current research in the Reading Brains Lab: "Our research sheds light on how people process rhymes, and how they process reading in general, information we believe is valuable in teaching kids to read." An article about this work can be found at ...

Sean Kang was recently awarded a grant by the National Endowment for Financial Education to investigate “Making it stick: Using cognitive science and technology to enhance the impact of financial education.”

David Kraemer is the Principal Investigator for Dartmouth on a recent collaborative grant from the National Science Foundation. The project is a collaboration between researchers in Kraemer’s lab, along with co-investigator, James Haxby in Psychological and Brain Sciences, and researchers at three other institutions. Their research will explore "Neural and cognitive strengthening of conceptual knowledge and reasoning in classroom-based spatial education.”

Michele Tine received a Dartmouth College, Scholarly Innovation and Advancement Award for the project: The Build-It Box Program: Bringing Informal Out of-School STEM Activities to Children Living in Rural Poverty.

Explores the connection between grounded cognition – the notion that knowledge partially relies on neural mechanisms pertaining to sensory and motoric processes – and STEM learning, evaluating several theories describing how the brain supports concept learning and proposing new research avenues awaiting exploration.

Steve Nelson, Valley News education columnist and contributor to Huffington Post and Head of Calhoun School in NYC will be talking about his new book First Do No Harm: ProgressiveEducation in a Time of Existential Risk at the Norwich Bookstore on Wednesday, February 8, 2017 at 7pm. Open to the public.

The Norwich Bookstore states: "Current educational practices, particularly in the United States, instill conformity and compliance at a time when...